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When Toothbrushes, Typewriters, and Credit Card Machines Form A Band
Many everyday objects make some noise as a side effect of their day job, so some of us hack would them into music instruments that can play a song or two. It’s fun, but it’s been done. YouTube channel...
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Alarm System Defeated by $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised
It seems a bit unfair to pile on a product that has already been roundly criticized for its security vulnerabilities. But when that product is a device that is ostensibly deployed to keep one’s family...
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This Week in Security: KNOB, Old Scams Are New Again, 0-days, Backdoors, and...
Bluetooth is a great protocol. You can listen to music, transfer files, get on the internet, and more. A side effect of those many uses is that the specification is complicated and intended to cover...
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Joining The RISC-V Ranks: IBM’s Power ISA To Become Free
IBM’s Power processor architecture is probably best known today as those humongous chips that power everything from massive mainframes and supercomputers to slightly less massive mainframes and...
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Modern Linux Runs On Ancient Toshiba
While Microsoft no longer supports those of its operating systems that were in heavy use into the early 2000s, support for old hardware is not typically something that you will have to worry about if...
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Perfect Cheese Every Time With This Temperature Controller
Anyone who is from a background in which cheesemaking is a feature will tell you that it is an exact science in which small differences in parameters can make a huge difference in the resulting...
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LED Triangle Looks Cool; Someone Tell Alt-J
For the average person, decorating at home is as simple as a few choice picks from the IKEA catalogue. Makers are a different breed, though – preferring something customized and glowing. This LED...
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An Entire PDP-11 On Your Bench
A PDP-11 at The National Museum Of Computing, Bletchley, UK. The DEC PDP series of minicomputers occupy a special place in computing history for us, because as the workhorses of commercial computing...
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Hacked Hoverboards Become Potent RC Tank
Hoverboards were the darling, or perhaps the scourge, of the last few years, Banned by vigilant airlines, they’re a great way to break an ankle or set your house on fire. However, they’re also a...
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The Danish Internet Of Hot Tubs
Every hacker camp has its own flavor, and BornHack 2019 in the Danish countryside gave us the opportunity to sample some hacker relaxation, Scandinavian style. Among the attractions was a wood-fired...
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Inventor And Detective Create Range Of Snack-Hiding Devices
Anyone who has had to deal with siblings, their friends, flatmates or parents who are overly fond of snacks may know this issue: you bought some snacks for your own consumption, but before you can get...
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Take Pictures Around a Corner
One of the core lessons any physics student will come to realize is that the more you know about physics, the less intuitive it seems. Take the nature of light, for example. Is it a wave? A particle?...
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The Tens of Millions of Faces Training Facial Recognition; You’ll Soon Be...
In a stiflingly hot lecture tent at CCCamp on Friday, Adam Harvey took to the stage to discuss the huge data sets being used by groups around the world to train facial recognition software. These...
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Vintage Console Becomes the Calculator it Appears to Be
What’s sitting on [Bob Alexander]’s desk in the video below did not start out life as the desktop calculator it appears to be. Turning it into a standalone calculator with features the original...
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Air Hockey Table is a Breeze to Build
Many of us have considered buying an air hockey table, but are put off by the price. And even if the money is there, those things take up a lot of space. How often are you really going to use it? This...
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STEP Up Your Jetson Nano Game with These Printable Accessories
Found yourself with a shiny new NVIDIA Jetson Nano but tired of having it slide around your desk whenever cables get yanked? You need a stand! If only there was a convenient repository of options that...
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The Satellite Phone You Already Own: From Orbit, UbiquitiLink Will Look Like...
For anyone that’s ever been broken down along a remote stretch of highway and desperately searched for a cell signal, knowing that a constellation of communications satellites is zipping by overhead is...
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The Trials and Tribulations of E-Bike Drivetrain Design
[Tom Stanton] is well-regarded in the maker community, and has put much effort in over the years on a variety of electric vehicle builds. In the process of upgrading his e-bike last year, he ran into...
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Another World On The Apple II
What’s more fun than porting an old game released for an old system such as the Apple IIgs to its 10-year-older predecessor, the Apple II from 1977? Cue [Deater]’s port of the classic video game...
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GigaDevice Releasing RISC-V MCUs And Development Boards
Probably not too many people have heard of Chinese manufacturer GigaDevice who so far has mostly been known as a NOR Flash memory manufacturer. Their GD32 range of MCUs is however STM32-compatible,...
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